[PATCH 04/13] x86/kvm: Do not try to disable kvmclock if it was not enabled

Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy at linux.intel.com
Tue Oct 10 06:53:27 PDT 2023



On 10/5/2023 6:13 AM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> kvm_guest_cpu_offline() tries to disable kvmclock regardless if it is
> present in the VM. It leads to write to a MSR that doesn't exist on some
> configurations, namely in TDX guest:
> 
> 	unchecked MSR access error: WRMSR to 0x12 (tried to write 0x0000000000000000)
> 	at rIP: 0xffffffff8110687c (kvmclock_disable+0x1c/0x30)
> 
> kvmclock enabling is gated by CLOCKSOURCE and CLOCKSOURCE2 KVM paravirt
> features.
> 
> Do not disable kvmclock if it was not enumerated or disabled by user
> from kernel command line.

For the above warning,  check for CLOCKSOURCE and CLOCKSOURCE2
feature is sufficient, right? Do we need to include user/command-line
disable check here?

> 
> Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov at linux.intel.com>
> Fixes: c02027b5742b ("x86/kvm: Disable kvmclock on all CPUs on shutdown")
> ---
>  arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c | 9 +++++++--
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c
> index fb8f52149be9..cba2e732e53f 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c
> @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
>  #include <asm/x86_init.h>
>  #include <asm/kvmclock.h>
>  
> -static int kvmclock __initdata = 1;
> +static int kvmclock __ro_after_init = 1;
>  static int kvmclock_vsyscall __initdata = 1;
>  static int msr_kvm_system_time __ro_after_init = MSR_KVM_SYSTEM_TIME;
>  static int msr_kvm_wall_clock __ro_after_init = MSR_KVM_WALL_CLOCK;
> @@ -195,7 +195,12 @@ static void kvm_setup_secondary_clock(void)
>  
>  void kvmclock_disable(void)
>  {
> -	native_write_msr(msr_kvm_system_time, 0, 0);
> +	if (!kvm_para_available() || !kvmclock)
> +		return;
> +
> +	if (kvm_para_has_feature(KVM_FEATURE_CLOCKSOURCE) ||
> +	    kvm_para_has_feature(KVM_FEATURE_CLOCKSOURCE2))
> +		native_write_msr(msr_kvm_system_time, 0, 0);
>  }
>  
>  static void __init kvmclock_init_mem(void)

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Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy
Linux Kernel Developer



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